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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… by which a considerable traffic in timber, corn, and coal, is carried on. A fair for cattle is held on October … railway, affording great facility for the conveyance of coal and other supplies. The market is on Thursday, and fairs … of British china, is obtained for exportation from some pits on the shore of Alum bay, near the Needles; and the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and early 20th centuries 87 were those of wood dealer and coal and manure merchant, tea dealer, station master, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… were discovered here as well as traces of ditches and pits. A stone-lined well, 4.7 m. deep, was excavated and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gravel workings have revealed traces of ditches, huts, and pits, with pottery and metal artefacts, suggesting that the … apart from the manor house, was Ivy House in Gravel Pits Lane, built by 1842 for Thomas Robinson. The house is of … One of a pair of cottages north of the end of Gravel Pits Lane was reputedly briefly a public house called the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 41 The cottage may have stood at the east end of Gravel Pits Lane. 42 Contributions to the Wesleyan circuit …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… quarried. The remainder of the wood is dotted with many pits and hollows; some are recent and others, apparently …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… productive collieries are worked, and one of the seams of coal is crossed by a vein of lead-ore, a circumstance of very …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… in the parish of Llangyvelach. There are several coal-works in operation, but the number of persons employed … and in the parish are valuable strata of iron-ore, stone-coal, and limestone, which, combining with other local … of large diameter. The iron-ore, limestone, and coal used are all procured in the parish. Formerly, the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… York and Hull at any time of the tide. Great quantities of coal are brought hither in barges of 30 or 40 tons' burthen; … of its principal manufactures; they consist chiefly of coal, iron, lead, stone of various qualities, and alum. The … Barnsley, Newmiller Dam, and East Ardsley, through which pits are sunk near Barnsley to several thick seams of hard …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… including one for Irish prisoners, mentioned in 1210. Pits dug in 1192 may have been graves. 11 There was also a … post-holes in a bank of compact yellow sand and two pits containing confused human bones. These were interpreted … most of which have been cut away. Two rectangular pits in the tower floor reveal a stone-lined drain, 2 ft. …